I bought a 21 inch 1080p Viewsonic monitor from a thrift store just the other day for $6. I got it just for this use case.

I had a spare for this purpose up until about a month ago when the backlight went out on one of my daily drivers.

Also, a couple of days ago I got a pretty nice steelcase apex 3 keyboard with RGB lights for $5.

I was a poor kid living in Hawaii in the mid 90’s.

Wendy’s in Hawaii had a salad bar. If you ordered the “dine in” salad bar, they gave you a fairly small plate and you were allowed one trip.

If you ordered it to go, you still had the one trip restriction, but they would give you a big plastic clamshell to go container. They assumed you would put food in the bottom of the container and close it up and leave.

Not me. I would order to go, but fill both halves of the container and eat it all at one of the tables. Usually one of the halves was mostly Chocolate pudding and cheezy crackers.

I use the terminal so much that I frequently accidentally use Ctrl-Shift-C and V outside of the terminal.

Ctrl-Shift-V usually works pretty well as it does a paste without formatting in a lot of places.

Accidentally hitting Ctrl-Shift-C though in a MS Team’s chat though, starts a voice call with all chat participants. 😑 hate it

Every distro.

Samba file shares should use regular user credentials and not have separate samba usernames and passwords.

Every distro with gnome.

Make RDP work as well as it does on Windows.

I’m talking about remoting into the Linux system.

Everytime the system is restarted you have to physically login to the system to unlock the keyring so that your RDP password is accessible or you won’t be able to get in. Or you have to remove your keyring password all together. Why is this different than the regular user password?

Also it’s weird that it works like VNC where you are controlling the system remotely but anyone local can see what you are doing on the screen. It is also cool to have that option but it shouldn’t be the default.

I'm a Linux admin at work and I use Linux for my main system.

I do need to administer some Windows only things too. I got them to give me an older desktop system running windows that I leave running in my cube.

Anytime I need to do Windows stuff I remote into that machine.

How did that exchange go?

They try to tell you that you can't use your last name?

Yup

I prefer mine a bit sweet. I usually buy YellowBird Blue Agave Sriracha

That looks really awesome.

I just bought one of these..

It sounds like you got it working-ish.

One thing you might be running into is having hiberboot (AKA fast startup)enabled in windows. Instead of shutting down it hibernates when you choose "shutdown".

If it is in the hibernated state instead of actually shutdown. You won't be able to choose a different boot option.

Here is some info on how to turn it off. https://www.elevenforum.com/t/turn-on-or-off-fast-startup-in-windows-11.1212/

Just for shiggles, I setup and ran a minecraft Java server on an old phone for a little while. I did this through Termux.

It was surprisingly good.

Most people get a new phone every 2-3 years. If people use their 2 most recent phones as simple servers, then these are not 10 year old devices.

I have some strange power issues with my laptop that may have a similar cause.

I put an additional drive in my work laptop so I could debian for work without nuking the system drive.

Shutting down usually always works properly but rebooting gets stuck sometimes. It's like it gets to the bottom of the reboot cycle and loses the ability to say "okay boot back up now". On my laptop, it's obvious that it is still on because of the light on the power button. I hold it down for about 12 seconds until it goes off and then I can power it back on.

I wonder if your surface is doing a similar thing where it is still powered on but not booted. You might try hiding the power button down for about 15 seconds and then hitting it again when it's in this state.

_yes But not in any way that makes it useful. It starts when the user logs into the computer locally. If I was going to do that I wouldn't need a remote session.

You can set the account to login automatically, but this doesn't unlock the keychain which is needed to decrypt the user's RDP password. So you can do it but you need to set your account to login automatically and set your keychain password to be blank.

I wonder what your coworkers discover about you…😜

I use the one built into Gnome but I have run into even more issues trying to install and use other ones.

Using RDP clients like Remmina is great. The problem is running a RDP server in linux.

In order to connect you must already be logged in to the remote computer locally and have unlocked your keychain. If the remote computer lost power and rebooted you will not be able to get in unless you have set the computer to login automatically and have set the keychain password to be blank, which is not great for security.

You can not use a different screen resolution in the client than you have setup in the server. This means that using "RD Client" on my Android phone to connect to my desktop computer with a resolution of 1920x1080 doesn't work. I need to use an alternate RDP client on my phone where a I can specify a custom resolution of 1920x1080. And then the user interface is tiny and does not fill my screen.

I use Remmina and it is great as a RDP client. But that is not my issue.

The issue is the way RDP is implemented at the server level.